severe mix feelings.

glad they caught him, but corporations casually snooping through your data and report whatever they want is definitely not an good thing

Microsoft has been doing this for years. It was with Onedrive at first but now that they’ve enabled “analytics” in every product that might connect to the internet they can have it all searched.

Supposedly it is first filtered by algorithms but that shit is still being uploaded somewhere other than your hard drive.

I believe it was in preview build versions of Win 7 or 10 where researchers found it was sending the generated thumbnails of images on your PC to Redmond (MS HQ). Can’t remember if they said it was for CSAM detection or just a debugging feature in the preview builds.